Etymology

Poughkeepsie

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Today it means: A city, the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, United States. Full definition →

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The story

From a word in Wappinger Munsee, roughly U-puku-ipi-sing (“the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place”).

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